This will be a big, varied book week in Sacramento, with events ranging from a volunteer chapbook-making workshop to a Second Saturday reception for local art-book author Doug Biggert. 

1. Monday, July 6, 8:00 p.m. The Moody Blues Poetry Series. A Taste of Laguna Southern Cuisine. Weekly poetry reading hosted by Ms. La-Rue, with music by DJ Barney B. $5. A Taste of Laguna. 9080 Laguna, Elk Grove 95758, (916) 691-663
2. Tuesday, July 7, 7:30 p.m Poets’ Workshop. Sacramento Poetry Center. Weekly workshop moderated by Danyen Powell. Bring 15 copies of your one page poem to be read and critiqued. Free. Hart Senior Center. 915 27th Street, Sacramento 95816, (916) 264-5462 or (530) 756-6228.
3. Wednesday, July 8, 6-9:00 p.m. The Bone Folders: Poems-For-All Folding Party.  The Book Collector. Help build little books of poetry. Poems-For-All needs help folding hundreds of little poem booklets to be given away during Jack Hirschman's San Francisco International Poetry Festival, starting July 23. No previous experience necessary. Refreshments provided. The Book Collector. 1008 24th St., Sacramento 95816, (916) 442-9295.
4. Thursday, July 9, 6:00 p.m. One Book, One Sacramento: The Soloist. The Sacramento Public Library enters its fifth One Book program with a reading group discussion of Steve Lopez’s The Soloist, the now-famous story about the relationship between an L.A. Times reporter and a homeless, classically trained musician. The Soloist is also a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. One Book events will continue through the fall. (The next scheduled reading group event will be Tuesday July 14.) The Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento 95814 (916)264-2700.
5. Friday, July 10, 7:30 p.m. The Right Place for Love, by Chris Reed. Reed, his wife Sophie and his two young daughters sold everything they owned and left Davis for Normandy, France. Reed told about the journey in a series of columns for the Davis Enterprise. What didn’t appear in the columns, however, was the collapse of the Reeds’ marriage and Chris’ downward spiral into a life of drunken crisis. The Right Place for Love is his memoir of this period. Free event. The Avid Reader, 617 Second Street, Davis 95616, (530)758-4040.
6. Saturday, July 11, 6:00-10:00. Second Saturday reception -- Doug Biggert's Hitchhikers. The Verge Gallery and Studio Project will showcase forty years of photography by Sacramentan Doug Biggert, long known to locals as the Tower Books buyer and godfather of the zine movement. The show includes photographs of nearly every hitchhiker Biggert has picked up (over 400). Seventy of these photographs appear in his book, Hitchhiker. Free event. Verge, 1900 V Street, Sacramento 95818.
7. Sunday, July 12, 11:00 a.m. El Camino Poets Workshop. Hart Senior Center. Hosted by Carol Louise Moon. Bring eight copies of your poems for critique. Hart Senior Center. 915 27th Street, Sacramento 95816, (916) 264-5462.

And here is a little peek ahead at next week:

Tuesday, July 14, 6:30 p.m. One Book, One Sacramento – The Soloist. Book discussion. South Natomas Library, 2901 Truxel Road, Sacramento 95833, (916) 264-2920.

. Join Chef Miller for an exclusive book signing of his highly anticipated cookbook,

at Grange Restaurant & Bar, during lunch and dinner hours. Grange Executive Chef Michael Tuohy will create a special menu for the occasion highlighting dishes from

. Early in his career, Miller worked at Chez Panisse before starting his own Fourth Street Grill, also located in Berkeley, in 1979. Since then he has created more than 13 restaurants on three continents, most notably in 1985 when he opened Coyote Café in Santa Fe. Other projects have included Red Sage and Raku in Washington, D.C., Loongba